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Class of 75 

Princeton University 



1915 



DE SENECTUTE 

The boundless ambition of youth does not rec- 
ognize the possibihty of failure, but we have 
measured the depth and breadth of that delusion. 
Fortunately with the flowing years comes a 
beneficent benumbing semianaesthesia to soften 
the disappointments of unsatisfied ambition and 
to blur the sharpness of the outlines of the great 
structure of unrealized hopes that those same 
years have built for us, and so protect the soul 
hardened by the "outrageous slings of adverse 
fortune," that it no longer responds easily to new 
insults but apparently braves every storm with 
smiling lips. As we go deeper down the decline 
nature kindly misinterprets to us the signs that 
erstwhile we could read clearly. 

The melancholy Jacques tells us that "All the 
world's a stage," and narrates the sequence of the 
distinguishing marks of each age. We have ex- 
perienced most of these ages and now with "wise 
saws and stately precedent" we discant on the 
follies of the present and the virtues of the past. 
I am not sure but that some of us do not every 
morning measure our shanks to see if the lean 
and shrunken pantaloons must come with our 
next order to the tailor. 



MEMORIES OF PRINCETON 
1871-1875 

It was a very different Princeton in June 1871 
when we took our first trip on the "Dummy" 
from the "Junction." The real Campus was 
bounded on the east by "Dad's" house, standing 
between the chapel and Nassau Street just in 
front of what is now called the "Old Library." 
This building was wrecked in our first term of 
Freshman year, and among my early Princeton 
trophies was the great lock and key, the latter 
about six inches long, rescued from the ruins of 
the front door. Between this house and the 
chapel was another building corresponding to 
the "College office" building on the west of the 
Campus. This building disappeared before we 
actually entered College, having been used for 
recitation rooms. Further east of the Chapel, 
Dickinson Hall had been erected and the vacant 
lot in front was being put in order for Campus 
purposes. East of this plot of ground was Mrs. 
Comfort's where many of the students roomed. 
What is now William Street was a lane, lined by 
small houses as far as Washington Street, which 



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were used as dormitories and eating houses. To 
the west the Campus was bordered by the Presi- 
dent's house, now the Dean's, and by the Geo- 
logical Hall, where the venerable "Stevie," the 
Astronomer, and Guyot, the famous exploiter 
of the "devil-up-ment of the rocks," held forth, 
and where to our shame we allowed those great 
men to pour their wisdom into deaf ears, we 
mediating meanwhile only on superior methods 
of jumping out of the windows without the poor 
old professors catching us, and once, though 
much later, some of us did jump out of those 
same windows right into the arms of Dr. Mc- 
Cosh who was fortuitously passing at the psycho- 
logical moment ! Then came Reunion and West 
College as they are now, and west of these the 
old Gymnasium next to the Observatory. The 
south side of the campus ended against a hedge 
limiting the Potter estate, behind the Literary 
Halls, and between in the middle distance was 
the historic and highly sanitary "South Campus." 
I have always thought that it was well for the 
Israelites that Moses was not a Presbyterian 
Minister such as made up the Board of Trustees 
of those days. 

Such was the physical appearance of Prince- 
ton with old N^orth used as a dormitory, and the 
present Faculty room containing the Library. 



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Old North was an ideal college dormitory, carry- 
ing with it all the characteristics that accord with 
the traditions of a medieval seat of learning, 
gloomy, cold, stone corridors which not even the 
ingenuity of a boy could find any way to damage, 
dark dismal rooms, where could be equally well 
cultivated the sickly cast of countenance of the 
midnight poler, and the rubicund swollen face of 
the all night roisterer. Few tutors and fewer 
proctors cared to venture into its caverns after 
dark. It always brings to my mind musty odors 
suggesting the images that the reading of old 
manuscripts from monkish libraries develops in 
one's brain. 

Campus Life in the Seventies 

Waterloo was won on the playgrounds of 
Eaton and Rugby. The football victories of the 
olden days were won on the Campus back of 
historic "North." 

There for two hours a day during the fall 
term the interminable A. to M. game between 
East and West Colleges kept two-thirds of the 
boys in active exercise, dodging around among 
the trees, and training eye and limb as no simi- 
lar exercise in an open and clear field could have 
done. There "Zach" and "Pebbles" and others 
of similar nimble ilk outwitted the slower moving 



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Bolton and "Turtle" ; and there these same heavy- 
weights learned to bat the ball with the fist under 
the old Association rules, straight and accurately 
to the goal; practice which told in after times, 
because it was just such a wallop with the fist 
that won our famous goal with Yale in the fall 
of 1873 after an hour and a half of uninterrupted 
play, and we carried off the game by a score of 
three to nothing. 

There it was that with patience and assiduity 
"Cow" Warren trained the "Whale" for the mile 
race in the approaching Caledonians, posting 
daily bulletins on the old oak that stood between 
East College and the old Chapel, showing the 
steady loss of weight by ounces from the original 
225 pounds, giving full reports of his steady im- 
provement in form and wind, and steadily lessen- 
ing time, beginning with his first mile in sixty 
minutes. 

The old bulletin tree yearly bore a crop 
of deriding posters directed against the Fresh- 
men by their Superiors, and others breathing 
equally truculent defiance against the Sophs by 
the Freshmen. Here among the notices of lost 
and foimd would appear the baseball challenges 
of the "Invincible Pagodas" against the "Stilly 
Nights" or the "Professionals," and notices of 
sales of books or furniture or rooms. On its 



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broad trunk appeared everything that any one 
wished his fellow student to know. 

Curiously I do not recall to have associated 
any memory of studies with the Campus during 
our first two years. Occasionally one would rush 
off a few minutes before the hour announcing his 
purpose to "pole"; of course Eddy and Hunt 
probably spoke of their tasks as they passed hur- 
riedly through, but as they never lingered on the 
Campus their words would not reach the rest. 
It has been maliciously hinted that this was a 
personal matter and peculiar to the writer, but I 
prefer to remember that it was not considered 
good form to mention studies on the Campus 
during our first two years. 

After the beginning of Junior year, the com- 
ing of Bracket into the faculty, his teaching of 
science and our good old Prexy's teaching of 
philosophy so reacted on our youthful minds that 
it became quite usual for Campus discussions to 
take place between "Smiley" and Cheeseman and 
"Archie" upon various recondite theories regard- 
ing the will and the emotions and the whirling 
atoms in the molecule. I think the mass of us 
looked upon this innovation with a great deal of 
doubt as to their conformity to Princeton tradi- 
tions, and I am quite sure that if Jackson, "Pop" 
Reilley or Evans had taken it up and used the 



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valuable time of the Campus with such discus- 
sions they would have soon been hooted down. 

There was a peculiar theory about moralities 
common to the Campus that was noteworthy. 
While the fact was well recognized that a state of 
war existed between the faculty as a body and 
the students as a body, yet between individuals 
there might be allowed a certain amount of re- 
spectful familiarity without infringing on the 
susceptibilities and the suspicions of the others. 
One might walk across the Campus with a pro- 
fessor, or call on him at his study, but it was 
mighty bad form to go up to him after lesson or 
lecture except when ordered to do so, under pen- 
alty of being suspected of "bootlicking," a hein- 
ous offence which merited ostracism. Similarly 
any device to circumvent the watchfulness of the 
professor presiding over an examination was 
permissible, even laudable if one cheated to pass, 
but woe! to him who, studying for high grade 
"shenanigaged" his way through his examination. 
The feeling of contempt for such an individual 
was so strong that I have known it to survive 
forty years of graduate life. "Festive" always 
held that it took as much brains to graduate last 
in the class as to be the first honor-man, and he 
gloried not a little in the fact that he had suc- 
ceeded in graduating last but had never been 



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conditioned in any examination during the four 
3^ears. He claimed that it showed great judg- 
ment and a very dehcate balancing of the chances 
to accomplish such a feat. 

There is no doubt that as much work and time 
was often spent on schemes to refresh the mem- 
ory at opportune moments as would have thor- 
oughly prepared the lesson if properly directed. 
Be that as it may, the chief excitement of exami- 
nation week was the all-night poling, and even 
the laziest took much unction to his soul for the 
self-denying labor that he bestowed upon his 
college work at such times, although it must be 
confessed that brewing the coffee took up about 
as much time as the actual grubbing. 

The chief glory of the Campus was then as 
now in the long twilights of the spring term. 
While senior singing had not become the formal 
affair and the social event that it has of recent 
j^ears, still there was plenty of Campus singing 
particularly during the "Senior vacation," that 
last ten days of the college term that intervened 
between the final examination and Commence- 
ment when all the rest of the college worked and 
the graduating class loafed; took a turn at top 
spinning and marbles as a finis to their boyhood, 
and gathered in the evenings and sang together 
long into the night. Benches were few and far 



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between in those days, the grass was good 
enough, although even then the steps of Old 
North was used, much to the disturbance of the 
underclassmen resident in that venerable pile, 
who were grinding out their work for the next 
day. 

The examinations of that olden time had some 
features that made for trouble. The Biennials 
in Soph year, covered the work for the first two 
years and the finals at the end of Senior year 
covered the work of the four years, even Fresh- 
man Greek and Latin and mathematics. Today 
all these inquisitions have disappeared, and a sub- 
ject, having been finished, may be forgotten 
"cum laude." 

Soph Bueial 

The Campus on Class Day night, brilliantly il- 
luminated by lanterns, was as at present the 
crowning event of the year. The visitors were 
entertained by the music of the Seventh Regi- 
ment Band, and at twelve o'clock the assemblage 
would be invaded by the gloomy procession of 
the "Soph Burial," a function that was held on 
the back Campus and has now fallen into imde- 
served desuetude. Our own was a wonderful 
spectacle, the burial of Anatomy: Headed by 
Governor Dennison as Mephistopheles and Blinn 



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as a red devil, following the Princeton darkey 
band playing a funeral march in all kinds of 
time, the class, clothed in skull and cross-bones 
decorated robes, sang lugubriously the Halsted 
"Ode to Bones" to the tune of old Grymes. It 
certainly was a sight for the gods. The funeral 
pyre was lighted, the proper orations were de- 
livered and Soph year ended in a blaze of glory. 

The Cane Spree 

After the proper interchange of posters de- 
riding and defying each other had occupied the 
attention of the lower classes during the first two 
weeks of the fall term, suddenly the quiet of Nas- 
sau Street at the Post Office would be disturbed 
by a scramble, a struggle, the hasty formation of 
a ring. The sounding of war cries of '74 '74, and 
answering weaker cries of '75 '75, indicated that 
some venturesome Freshman had come down the 
street with a cane and that the challenge had 
been accepted and the war was on. 

You spend the next day in practicing with 
your roommate or some friendly Junior who 
tries to teach you the proper tricks of the game, 
the importance of the outside grip, the necessity 
of hanging on and avoiding the breaking of the 
stick, incidentally filling you up with tales of 
previous sprees to brace up your courage and to 



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egg you on. You assemble at the appointed ren- 
dezvous after supper, escorted thither by some 
good natured Junior who carries the precious 
banger; and then with well counterfeited glee 
and inward qualms you are marshalled into ranks 
by the upperclassmen and marched to the Post 
Office. Outwardly you are howling "Seventy- 
five! five! five!" inwardly you are wishing that 
your forebears had not given you such square 
shoulders, that give a false impression of 
strength ; only too soon you are down on Nassau 
Street and the Sophs have assaulted the line. 
The leaders are at once the centers of circling, 
howling rings of upper classmen; in a breath 
your own time comes and you feel yourself 
dragged, thrown down, trampled upon, amid en- 
couraging shouts of friends and derisive howls 
of foes, and over all the stimulating cry of 
"Seventy-five! five! five!" to encourage you to 
hold on ; and now you are down in the dust of the 
street, someone steps on your face and you think 
for a moment of home and mother, and then 
"five! five! five!" rings in your ears and stiffens 
up your muscles, your whole soul goes into the 
ends of your fingers, and centuries pass away. 
Suddenly a crack, the treacherous stick breaks, 
one piece leaves your hand, the other you keep, 
the rings break up, cries of triumph resound 



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from all sides and you take your fragment and 
tie a yellow ribbon on it and hang it on the wall, 
and spend the evening narrating how they had 
put a hundred and eighty pound Sophomore onto 
you, and that you held on for one full half hour 
before the cane broke. Five minutes was usually 
a long time for an individual spree and later 
when you find out whom your opponent was it is 
wonderful how he has shrunk up. 

The War with Rutgers and the Stealing 

OF THE Cannon 

- During our Spring vacation in Senior year 
the New York papers published the account of 
a raid by the students of Rutgers College upon 
the Campus at Princeton, and the stealing of the 
historic Revolutionary Cannon that stood in the 
center of the Campus, the Hub of the life at 
Princeton, around which were celebrated all ath- 
letic victories, and whence it was believed pro- 
ceeded the spirit that endued all its heroes with 
the prowess that enabled them to conquer their 
foes. Altogether it was a sad story that we read 
in the public prints, and with chastened spirit we 
returned from our vacation to find that the old, 
the real Princeton Cannon, had not been touched 
but that the small one which had originally stood 
as a buffer at the corner of Witherspoon and 



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Nassau streets, and had been planted in the Cam- 
pus by some boisterous spirits in the past, around 
which were wreathed no memories, and for which 
no one cared, had been stolen during the absence 
of the students at their homes. However, when 
we arrived, awaiting for us was Karl Kase of '72 
recently appointed reporter for the New York 
Herald, eager for material for a sensation col- 
umn in his paper, and calling for vengeance upon 
Rutgers and promising to go down to New 
Brunswick and deliver into our hands the Can- 
non if we would organize an expedition for a 
retaliatory raid. And so the Pagodas and the 
Professionals and various volunteers from '76 
and '77 were called in, and that night the expe- 
dition started out after dark in two coaches and 
a large stage toward New Brunswick, arriving 
at the outskirts of the town about three o'clock 
in the morning. The expedition was met by 
Kase and a companion or two who had been sent 
down by train to spy out the land, and they re- 
ported that the Cannon lay in the New Bruns- 
wick Police Station with two stalwart cops 
sitting on it night and day, and the only thing 
to do was to raid the college buildings, bum them 
or in some efficient way punish the thieves for 
their impudence. All but one team was left out- 
side the town and the marauders proceeded 



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stealthily down to the Campus, broke into the 
armory and soon appeared carrying out the guns 
with which the students were supposed to drill. 
Quickly the expedition loaded up the stage and 
soon were off to Princeton, Kase in the meantime 
catching an early train for New York. He had 
enough material for several columns, and the 
press teemed with the threats of war and retali- 
ation. It was supposed that the State would 
take up the affair as the muskets were owned by 
the State and loaned to Rutgers. 

Formal committees of arbitration were ap- 
pointed by the two Faculties and a treaty was 
arranged by which two expeditions, one convey- 
ing the Princeton Cannon and the other the Rut- 
gers Muskets, should meet half way between the 
two towns and under a flag of truce a fair ex- 
change should be made. The affair was carried 
out as proposed, under the supervision of "Mat" 
Goldie the Cannon was brought back and buried 
in cement, and in the bore there is a roll of the 
participants in the raid upon New Brunswick 
who thus found themselves greeted as heroes and 
applauded for what usually would have ended in 
suspension, evidencing the effect of a state of 
war upon the scholastic mind. 



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The Secret Society Fight 

One of the memorable events of our college 
life was the Secret Society Fight. After the 
expulsion of the Greek-letter Fraternities in the 
late fifties a few chapters had persisted, living a 
subterranean existence supposedly without the 
knowledge of the Faculty, yet well known of all 
the students, and at our time three such societies 
existed with a membership of fifty-five pos- 
sibly, also there were many unattached Greek- 
letter men who had come from other colleges, or 
had been admitted to such societies in other col- 
leges with the intention that they should be a 
nucleus ready for that great day when Princeton 
should open its door. 

There were also a lot of men who sympathized 
with and supported the Secret Society men with 
the result that at least one third of the students 
of the college were in favor of the Greek-letter 
Fraternities. There were moreover, graduates 
of such societies in the Faculty and on the Board 
of Trustees, and continually it was rumored that 
next year the bars would be lowered and such 
societies admitted. 

In one of the Literary Halls the numbers of 
pros and antis were nearly equal, and when a 
new treaty between the two Halls, bearing on the 



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eligibility of Fraternity members came up for 
consideration its adoption seemed quite un- 
certain. 

Then ensued a most active campaign, on the 
Campus, at the Post Office, on the streets and in 
the college rooms ; and those were great debates. 
As it occurred in our Sophomore year we had 
very little part in it, but we can all recall stand- 
ing with our mouths and ears wide open taking 
in the arguments of the great debators of '73, 
McPherson, Van Dyke, Bryan, Adams, Ernst, 
Garret, Pell, and others. The result was a com- 
plete defeat of the Secret Society forces. Later 
in 1876 the attempt was made to have the Greek- 
letter Fraternities reorganized, and the members 
appeared with their mystic symbols. This at- 
tempt also failed and the societies were dis- 
banded. 

The Princeton Scientific Club 

The coming of Professor Bracket and the es- 
tablishment of the Scientific School was the cause 
of great development of the scientific spirit, and 
the "Princeton Scientific Club" was founded 
with a membership drawn from the three upper 
classes. Rooms were hired over Marsh's drug 
store, a laboratory was established, scientific 
subjects were discussed at the meetings and the 



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Faculty were asked in to see what we had done, 
but as the rooms were outside of the jurisdiction 
of the college and as certain of the members of 
the society were in the eyes of the Faculty rather 
uncertain quantities, the support and consent of 
the Faculty was withheld. In the meantime the 
baseball season came on and the Yale team came 
down to play, and as there was no other place 
to entertain them, behold! the rooms of the 
Princeton Scientific Club were borrowed and 
there the team was entertained after the game. 
Unfortunately, in conducting some chemical ex- 
periments in the laboratory the water was al- 
lowed to overflow and flooded the printing ofiice 
below, and when the people came to investigate 
they found evidences of a feast and a large and 
perfectly good punch bowl on the library table 
with orange peel and the odor of grape juice 
about the room. This was pabulum for the re- 
porters and the story soon reached the ears of the 
Faculty, and the P.S.C. was ordered to be dis- 
banded and the rooms closed. The worst of the 
misfortune being that none of the members of 
the society had had any of the contents of that 
punch bowl. 

It is interesting to rehearse the many things 
that started during the four years that measured 
our undergraduate life. With the exception of 



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baseball most of the athletics of Princeton dates 
from that period. The new gymnasium had been 
built a couple of years ; one or two games of foot- 
ball had been played with Rutgers and one or 
two baseball tours had been made into New Eng- 
land ; but from that time intercollegiate games in 
football and baseball became and continued to 
be annual events: The so-called Caledonian 
games were established and intercollegiate games 
were instituted, Princeton being represented at 
the first one in Mott Haven. About this time 
(1872) the first real Princeton crew was sent to 
Philadelphia, and boating was regularly estab- 
lished with two '75 men on the first Princeton 
crew sent to an intercollegiate regatta. The 
Glee Club first became a formal organization, 
and started the habit of giving concerts outside 
of Princeton in 1874. 

The old "Lit" had existed as a quarterly for 
many years giving little attention to College 
News or Campus Gossip. The President would 
not allow the class of '75 to establish a weekly 
paper as we wished, so we took the old "Lit" and 
published ten numbers a year instead of four, and 
devoted half of each number to College news. 
Our class lost one hundred dollars on the venture 
but the next year it was a financial success, and 
continued so until the Weekly and later the Daily 



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Princetonian became firmly established. So we 
really started the ball rolling in the matter of 
modern college journalism at Princeton. It is 
only fair to say that just previous to our era a 
weekly paper the College World had been started 
but died almost in the horning. 

The gymnasium was a great attraction to 
many of the class and under the expert tutelage 
of George Goldie, who is still living, they soon de- 
veloped great muscles and expertness. One par- 
ticular star, "Tete" Sheldon admittedly the finest 
gymnast in the college world, was facile princeps 
in the intercollegiate contests of that time. 

It has not appeared that the gymnasium work 
was particularly conducive to longevity for many 
of our gymnasts died earlier than the average. 

Rowing 

As I remember there were some efforts at row- 
ing before our day. But the enthusiasm for that 
form of athletics reached high watermark in 1874 
and 1875. In 1874 a freshman crew were booked 
for the races at Saratoga with eight leading col- 
leges. In the University crew, Richard Hall and 
Cross were from our class. The difficulties were 
great on the old canal, and the boatmen ran us 
down whenever they could. The two crews had 
pluck however, and went through the hard train- 



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ing. The freshmen, with Ben. Nicol as captain, 
were well organized and trained, and won the 
race over Yale and Columbia. The University 
crew was run by a committee, and while it had 
good material, for want of more autocratic con- 
trol it never developed the form and harmony 
that the Freshmen did. By a mistake in the start 
and getting off the course it succeeded in coming 
in with the tailenders. , 

The Freshmen won us great glory. And en- 
couraged by this Princeton essayed to go to Sar- 
atoga with a crew of heavy weights, under Ben. 
Nicol, that promised well and made quite a sen- 
sation. But the heaviest man had a felon on his 
hand, and collapsed in the middle of the race and 
that was the end of it. "A chain is not stronger 
than its weakest link." This second failure put 
a quietus on the rowing spirit. 

C. B. Cross. 

Our Secretary has asked me to give my per- 
sonal recollections of baseball and football in our 
time at college. As these are personal recollec- 
tions I trust that I may be forgiven if the first 
personal pronoun appears more frequently than 
would otherwise be considered in good taste. 
, Henry Moffat. 



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Baseball 

The career of our class on the baseball field 
was far from being a brilliant one. We had no 
great stars and though we started out in Fresh- 
man year with the greatest enthusiasm the class 
nine in later years died a natural death. In 
Freshman year, as I remember, we had a wildly 
enthusiastic meeting when the nine was organ- 
ized, and provided ourselves with elaborate suits 
of white knickerbockers and shirts and purple 
stockings. I cannot think of that early organiza- 
tion without bringing before myself the vivid 
picture of those two militant brothers, "Ceasar" 
and "Pompey" Latta, who were most enthusi- 
astic and energetic in getting out the latent talent 
of the class. "Pompey" was our first captain; 
and as manager a bashful and timid youth of- 
fered his services. Little did we think that from 
this modest beginning there would develop that 
great genius, who, through all these years has 
managed all the affairs of our class, kept alive 
the spirit of our young days and brought us to- 
gether to so many enjoyable reunions. Need I 
say that I allude to our genial Secretary — ^Dr. 
T. W. Harvey, otherwise known as "Tam." 

You must all remember the players on that 
wonderful nine — ^there was George Hendrick- 



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son, catcher; "Dasher" Wylly, pitcher; "Pomp" 
Latta, first base; and the rest of us sprinkled 
over the field. There were Eldridge, Scribner, 
Sheldon, Bradford, Pete McGough, "Chippy" 
Elder, "Time" Gallagher and myself. We 
played our usual games with the upper classes 
with varying success; but the only two games 
that remain fixed in my mind are those with Rut- 
gers' Freslimen, and with Lawrenceville. We 
played Rutgers at New Brunswick under as- 
sumed names, such as "Dasher," "Pomp," 
"Pete," "Tete," "Doc." etc., as we were forbid- 
den to leave town by the Faculty. In spite of 
this somewhat questionable way of playing, we 
defeated the Rutgers nine handily. Our game 
with Lawrenceville was amusing, exciting, but 
not successful. Those of us who plaj'^ed in that 
game have vivid recollections of the constant tur- 
moil, proceeding principally from the pitcher's 
box on our side. This was probably the explana- 
tion of our failure to win, and I am constrained 
to say that Eldridge's explanation of a previous 
visit of the nine to the cider mill, on the way to 
Lawrenceville, cannot be substantiated. 

In Sophomore year, in spite of the vigorous 
efforts of "Gov." Dennison, who tried to make 
something of us, the nine through numerous vicis- 
situdes began to gradually disintegrate, and in 



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Junior and Senior years, passed out of my rec- 
ollection altogether. A few of us tried for the 
Varsity nine and the baseball energy of the 
class was shown in later years by the organiza- 
tion of those two wonderful and unique nines 
called the "Professionals" and "Pagodas"; but 
even these two organizations paled in contrast to 
the interest and excitement caused by Joe War- 
ren trapping in front of Reunion Hall during 
Senior year. So expert did Joe become in this 
line of effort, that he wrote, in the spring of our 
Senior year, to the President of the Intercollegiate 
Athletic Association, which met in Saratoga, 
challenging any member of any other college in 
the country to meet him at trapping in front of 
the Grand Union Hotel. It is needless to say 
that Joe's challenge was not accepted. 

The only members of our class who made the 
Varsity nine were "Tete" Sheldon, Bradford 
and myself. During the spring of our Senior 
year "Tete" and Bradford fell by the wayside, 
and in the final games with Harvard and Yale, 
I was left as the only representative of the class 
on the Varsity nine. This was the year in 
which curved pitching was discovered and first 
used by the pitcher on our nine — J. M. Mann, 
'76, and we had many close and interesting 
games that season. The last game with Yale has 



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been famous ever since. We defeated Yale 3 to 
0, and this was the first no hit, no run, game in 
the history of baseball. 

The record of all these games can be found in 
Frank Presbrey's "History of Athletics at 
Princeton" — and I can add nothing to what is 
there given in description of them. 

Football 

Our class record in football was decidedly 
more brilliant than that in baseball. We had 
two or more representatives on the Varsity 
football team from the Freshman year on. Our 
class games were always well contested and we 
frequently met with well deserved victories. In 
fact these interclass games, as I remember them, 
were the severest games we ever played, and I 
have a vivid recollection of a close and interesting 
contest with the class of '76 in the back campus, 
when we both fought it out to a finish. The only 
members of the Varsity team from our class in 
the Freshman year were "Zac" Lionberger and 
myself and the only game played that year was 
with the "Seminoles" on the old field, which has 
since become the Brokaw Field. We were suc- 
cessful in this contest, but I fail to remember the 
score. In Sophomore year the only game was 
with Rutgers, at New Brunswick, whom we sue- 



28 CLASS OF '75 



ceeded in defeating with a score of 4 to 1. 
"Dave" Marvel, '73, was captain of that team 
and "Zac," Wylly, Ten Eyck and I were the 
only members from our class to play. In Junior 
year several members of our class made the team; 
these were Frank Biddle, Elder, Hutchinson, 
Lionberger, Rodgers and myself. It was during 
this year that we played our first game with Yale. 
This game, played in New Haven on November 
15, 1873, marked the beginning of that long 
series of football contests with Yale which has 
extended down to the present time. As I re- 
member the game, and its somewhat primitive 
methods, we played for over an hour when the 
only football, owned by the Association was burst 
and we had to wait until they sent into New 
Haven for another one. This delay seemed to 
rouse a new spirit in our team, and a short time 
after resuming play, we made the first goal. Two 
other goals were made in rapid succession and 
the final score was 3 goals to in favor of 
Princeton. 

In Senior year "Zac" Lionberger was captain 
of the team and our class supplied nearly half 
the membership. There were Biddle, Elder, 
Eddy, Dulles, B. Hall and R. Hall, Hutchinson, 
Ten Eyck and myself. We had a triumphant 
season, playing both Columbia and Rutgers and 



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winning each game with a score of 6 goals to 
in our favor. 

When we see the elaborate preparation for the 
Intercollegiate contests of today, the highly paid 
coaches, trainers, rubbers, etc. and also the wild 
enthusiasm with which the graduate and under- 
graduate bodies attend these games, with the 
organized singing and cheering and all that goes 
with that, our primitive methods of training and 
preparation are interesting and amusing to re- 
member. In baseball, it is true, during the early 
spring months, those of us who were on the Vars- 
ity nine, did begin some preliminary training in 
the "gym," by throwing a ball the length of the 
bowling alley at a canvas target. When the 
weather permitted, practice was begun on the 
ball field but there were no coaches or profes- 
sional trainers. We attended to all such things 
ourselves. 

In football our constant daily practice, in the 
A-M games on the Campus, gave us all the train- 
ing and preparation we needed. I can remember 
that when we were planning to play that Yale 
game at New Haven "Jake" Van Deventer 
mildly suggested to me that it might be wise for 
the team to take a run around the triangle every 
evening in preparation; but this step in the line 
of vigorous training did not meet with the ap- 



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proval of all the members of the team and we 
went up to that game just as we were. There 
were never any regular football suits for the 
team. Those who were members of the ball nine, 
played in their baseball suits if they wished to, 
and the others played in their ordinary clothes. 
There was no organized singing and cheering for 
the team. Comparatively little enthusiasm was 
shown by the undergraduate body. I well re- 
member that after winning that 3 to game in 
baseball, at New Haven, we came home on the 
"Owl train" from New York. No arrangements 
had been made to convey us from the Junction; 
no crowds of undergraduates greeted us and in- 
stead of a triumphant entry we had to walk the 
three miles over from the Junction at three 
o'clock in the morning carrying our own baseball 
bats. Doutbless there was enthusiasm among 
the students at this time ; but it was not organized 
and no one offered to lead in such matters. 

Classmates, these memories may seem trifling 
to some of you, grown old and so far removed 
from those days in college; but to me they have 
been an exhaustless fountain of youth. If we 
dwell upon these tonight we will all be boys to- 
gether again. Let us then get back into the old 
days once more where no gray hairs obtrude and 
no furrowed brows prevail. 



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The Origin of the Princeton Glee Club 

The Princeton Glee Club was organized in 
the midwinter of the college year '73-'74. Pre- 
vious to that year all of the singing done on be- 
half of the students under any official name was 
the volunteer work of what was known as the 
University Quartette, or, for brevity "U. Q."; 
all of whom happened to belong to the class of 
'73, so that their graduation left the college with- 
out a musical organization with an official name. 

Early in the fall of '73, "Charlie" Fleming and 
I, in his rooms in the house of Mrs. Higgins on 
Nassau Street opposite Dickinson Hall, organ- 
ized a volunteer quartette, composed of Alfred 
K. Bates, '74, 2nd Bass; Edward M. Deems, '74, 
1st Base; Charles M. Fleming, '75, 1st Tenor; 
and Charles Claflin Allen, '75, 2nd Tenor. Af- 
ter two or three weeks of practice we went out 
to serenade the girls one night, and returning 
about 10.30 o'clock stopped in the space between 
old North College and Reimion Hall and sang 
some songs. The next morning we found our- 
selves known by reputation as the University 
Quartette. 

In the winter, "Andy" West, '74, now Ph.D., 
LL.D., and Litt.D., and Dean of the Graduate 
College, wrote an article for the Nassau Lit com- 



32 CLASS OF '75 



plaining that Princeton had no Glee Club, and 
calling on the "U.Q." to organize one such as 
the other large colleges had. Inspired by this 
article I got the consent of the other boys in the 
quartette to attempt an organization which 
should be backed by the students as a whole, and 
thus make a Glee Club which should be recog- 
nized as a college institution. "Eddie" Deems 
came down to my room and with writing ink and 
a piece of blotting paper rolled up for a brush 
printed a notice on a sheet of yellow paper as 
follows : 

"All persons interested in the organiza- 
tion of a Glee Club will meet at the Chapel 
at noon today." 

We also prepared a set of Resolutions and a 
Constitution for the Glee Club, when organized. 
This notice was posted on the old "Bulletin 
Tree" which stood between the old chapel and the 
north end of East College. At the meeting the 
Resolutions were presented, at our request, by 
Simon J. McPherson, '74, now D.D. LL.D., 
and Head Master at Lawrenceville, who had 
never been known to turn a tune, but whose high 
character and personal influence were as great 
then in our College World as they have ever 
since been in the larger world, and were de- 




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pended upon as a guaranty that the new institu- 
tion planned should be the right thing done in 
the right way. The meeting unanimously 
adopted the Resolutions and the Constitution, 
and there came into existence the "Princeton- 
College Glee Club" which has continued in suc- 
cession from year to year until this day. 

From its organization until we graduated in 
'75, "Tam" Harvey, sometimes known since as 
Dr. Thomas W. Harvey, Secretary of the class 
was Business Manager, and the writer of this 
article was president of the club and director of 
the music. 

The original club consisted of thirteen mem- 
bers, but in '75 we were unable to find more than 
twelve and part of the time eleven students who 
were qualified to be members of the Glee Club. 
I can find no list of the members in '74, but in 
'75, an old programme shows them to be as 
follows : 

First Tenors: Charles Claflin Allen, '75; C. M. 
Fleming, '75; W. A. Gait, '78. Second Tenors, 
A. M. Dulles, '75; W. Dulles, Jr., '78; J. G. 
Miller, '76. First Bass, W. T. Kaufman, '76; 
F. H. Markoe, '76; F. A. Marquand, '76. Sec- 
ond Bass, Frank Dunning, '76; W. B. VanLen- 
nep, '76; W. R. Yourt, '77. 

The first public concert was given in the 



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Second Presbyterian Church at Princeton, June 
20, 1874, and several concerts were given the fol- 
lowing year. In every concert "Old Nassau" 
was put first on the programme as an act of loyal- 
ty to the college. At that time it was unknown 
to the students as well as the public, and but for 
the determination of the first Glee Club to pro- 
mote the Princeton Spirit, there might never 
have been known what is admittedly today the 
greatest University song in America, "Old 
Nassau." 

Chas. Claflin Allen. 

The College Personnel 

Of course a college had to have a Proctor, and 
"Mat." Goldie was an ideal Proctor. Square 
and honest, he accepted no graft, played no 
favorites, hated cant and hypocrisy and was a 
watch dog without being a spy. Many of us un- 
doubtedly stayed in college because "Mat." knew 
when to keep his eyes shut and his tongue silent, 
and there is no doubt of his popularity among 
the Princetonians of our day. His understudy 
however, "Dennis," the Mercury of the Faculty, 
with his "You are to see the Doctor in his study 
tonight" and his "You are to wait after Chapel 
this evening" was regarded as a bird of ill omen 
whose very presence contaminated the atmo- 
sphere. 



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Then there was the long-legged lazy Alec, 
who mowed the Campus once a year and Bartly, 
that prince of college servants who would have 
allowed his tongue to be cut out before he would 
have revealed the secrets of the "sacred nine" to 
which he had been formally initiated, or have re- 
ported any of his special charges for any infrac- 
tion of college discipline. 

Then we recall with mingled feelings, the old 
stuttering darky Jim Stink who bought our old 
clothes, sold apples and had been known to loan 
small sums of money at enormous interest. Jim 
could make a wonderful political speech with- 
out a stutter when properly full of his favorite 
whiskey which was the only word Jim could ut- 
ter without stuttering. 

If there was any weak spot in the good old 
lady's household in the seventies it certainly was 
in the tutorial system ; a tutor was usually a mis- 
fit. Occasionally real men like Turner or Rom- 
mel would be appointed, and even more rarely a 
scholar such as the present Professor Hunt. But 
as a rule they were men who were earning a lit- 
tle needed money to go on to some other work 
and had no heart for their task or interest in their 
pupils, or they were men who had failed in other 
work, whose chief ambition was to keep a perfect 
record of attendance and absences. These men 



36 CLASS OF '75 



were unfortunately put in charge of the students 
in their most important year, when they should 
have had the stimulation and example of trained 
men. The influence of such men was seen when 
on reaching Junior year a very different show- 
ing was made by men who lagged far behind in 
the first two years. 

I am sure that there are many men of the sev- 
enties who would have made better showing as 
students if they had been under the influence of 
such men as Professor Bracket, Duffield or 
Packard during their Freshman year. In those 
days boys did not go to Princeton as a social 
function, the boys who went there usually were 
sent at much personal sacrifice, because they 
were bright boys who had done well at school and 
were regarded as particularly promising. Many 
of these men failed to continue to do good work 
because of the deadly influence of most of the 
tutors. For most of the Freshmen the actual 
required work was much less than they had 
been accustomed to do as school boys, and 
then came habits of laziness and dissipation and 
the usual opportunities supplied by his satanic 
majesty. 

The Professorial Faculty, however, were a lot 
of great men whom we were immensely proud of, 
even though we reviled them familiarly by their 



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first names. But the more familiar we were the 
greater our admiration for them, and Jimmie, the 
old President, led them all in our love and 
admiration. 

Of all the men whom we knew it seemed as if 
Bracket was most influential in stimulating our 
minds to think. Instead of compelling us to 
memorize a lot of dates and titles which seemed 
to cover the entire course of English Literature, 
instead of rules of Greek and Latin grammar 
and the memorizing of the English meaning of 
French or German words without the slightest 
suggestion that one should learn to think in those 
languages before one could know them. Profes- 
sor Bracket taught us, so far as then understood, 
the principles that underlie natural phenomena, 
and we learned more of inductive reasoning from 
him by doing it than we did from Dad by being 
told about it. And then from him we learned 
about the other side of the shield of truth, and 
it was a great relief to turn from the pitiless logic 
of Dr. Atwater to the sweet and soothing possi- 
bilities of physics. Dad's "Such arguments 
would lead to Materialism and Pantheism and 
are monstrous and unthinkable," was convincing 
for the time being but not satisfying to the mind 
that had just been introduced to the infinitesimal 
whirling atoms which by the diversities of their 



38 CLASS OF '75 



gyrations made different molecules and different 
forms possible. 

And then there was our beloved Shields har- 
monizing the warring elements and showing how 
as you approach closer to the unsurmountable 
and the uncompromising, the difficulties grow 
less and the antagonism disappears, and so it has 
come to pass that no longer do we hear of the 
conflict of science and religion, and there is no 
need for such a chair as Professor Shields filled 
and yet there is, for dogmatism and rancor will 
always live, and we have need of the sweetening 
influence of such a soul that believed that the 
whole is not yet fully known and that we can help 
not by fighting but by pushing and investigating. 

There are those, however, who aver that their 
greatest gain in Princeton was from the teaching 
of Atwater, and probably it was so because for- 
tunately we are not all attuned alike, and do not 
all respond to the same Hertzian vibration. 
What man was there who was not quite con- 
vinced as long as "Duff." was talking that he 
understood quite clearly the most intricate prob- 
lems, until he went home and tried them without 
the encouraging smile of the genial Professor. 

Packard impressed us differently, we learned 
from him more than from any one when we were 
minded so to do, but we never showed him any 



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disrespect. Far different was it with our old 
enemies Schenck and "Cam." With Cameron, 
of course, it was merely a matter of inheritance. 
It was the proper thing to do, and tradition held 
that every Freshman class should celebrate its in- 
troduction to a real professor by hazing him. 

I never could fathom the class aversion to 
Schenck. His subject was very interesting to 
many of us and was as well taught as was possible 
in those days without laboratories; but then '75 
stole his skeleton and his choice collection of soap, 
and he never forgave them. When asked if he 
could remember the library meetings of Dr. Mc- 
Cosh, "C." sent the following: 

Nodes Amhrosianae 

Do I remember the conferences in Dr. Mc- 
Cosh's library? To be sure, I do. Who that had 
share in those veritable Nodes Amhrosianae can 
ever forget them? Did not they stir and stimu- 
late the process of finding oneself — leave an im- 
perishable impress on mind and soul ? 

How vividly the picture rises in my mind : the 
fine old library with its bay window giving on 
the campus ; the cheerful fire blazing on the 
hearth ; the mellow lamplight ; the long table, cov- 
ered with books and papers, about which the 
eager students were grouped; and Dr. McCosh, 



40 CLASS OF '75 



benignant and alert, seated in his favorite chair, 
directing, suggesting, dominating all. One night 
in particular, I recall. A paper on some phase 
of Greek philosophy was read by a student. Then 
followed inquiry, argument, discussion ; Dr. Mc- 
Cosh asking now a penetrating question, now 
making a shrewd observation, half in criticism, 
half in amplification of the paper, and now, by 
large and rapid generalizations, bringing the an- 
cient wisdom into relation with modern thought 
and seeking to make it throw light on "those 
obstinate questionings" — always old, always new 
— that vex every serious soul. And above all this 
was done so kindly, so simply, so in the manner, 
not of one set over us, but of a fellow seeker, 
after truth — only of ampler experience and 
larger attainment — ^that no savor of dogmatism 
marred the impression. I came away, I know, 
from that soul-stirring conference walking with 
lighter step, breathing a purer air, and with vision 
quickened, purified, enlarged. 

Dr. McCosh was the last of the great college 
presidents that were preeminent as teachers. He 
was a great organizer, a great executive, a great 
leader in educational improvement and advance, 
a great upbuilder of Princeton's physical equip- 
ment, a great and glowing persuader of men to 
active and generous belief in his hopes and as- 



PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 41 

pirations for the college; but, first of all and 
above all, he was a great and inspiring teacher. 
With him spiritual forces were always to be more 
highly esteemed than those which were temporal. 
He had clear vision of the Princeton that was to 
be — a larger and greatr force in the life of the 
country and of the world — and he wrought un- 
tiringly and with ample success toward its reali- 
zation. But all his large planning and activity 
to this end was not permitted to interrupt or 
interfere with his courses of instruction or to 
impede his own pursuit of wisdom. No student, 
I venture to say, of all the years while he guided 
Princeton's destinies, but bore away with him 
into life some ineffaceable influence from Dr. Mc- 
Cosh's teaching — an influence for clearer think- 
ing and for better living. We used to smile, 
doubtless, at his whimsicalities of manner and 
speech, at his irascibilities of temper; but no one 
ever failed to recognize and respect the essential 
greatness and noble high-mindedness of the man. 
We loved him all the more for his foibles. 

Ah, and best of all. Dr. McCosh was sanely 
and serenely open-minded ; free from bigotry, de- 
void of narrowness, ready to welcome new light, 
new truth, whencesoever it came; never fearing 
that any novel discovery in thought or science~so 
it was real — could "push the Lord's right hand 



42 CLASS OF '75 



from under," or undermine the foimdations of 
our faith. At a time when a distinguished theolo- 
gian of his own church was proclaiming in class- 
room and printed word that Darwinism was 
atheism, Dr. McCosh had no difficulty, philoso- 
phical or religious, in accepting the doctrine of 
evolution. In his own special field of inquiry he 
was prompt to accept and adopt the new theories 
and methods of research. It was this open-mind- 
edness, this receptivity to new and revolutionary 
views and modes of thought, this utter intellectual 
aliveness and eagerness for attainment, that made 
him so stimulating and inspiring a teacher. And 
nowhere did he show these fine qualities to better 
purpose, to more enduring effect than in those 
intimate, informal conferences under the mellow 
lamplight of his own study and surrounded by 
the books that he most loved. 

"O strong soul, by what shore 
Tarriest thou now? For that force. 
Surely, has not been left vain ! 
Somewhere, surely, afar. 
In the sounding labour-house vast 
Of being, is practiced that strength. 
Zealous, beneficent, firm!" 

Chaeles R. Williams. 



PROF. ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER, Ph.D. 

1 Avenue Gallatin, Geneva 

Nov. 29, 1914. 

Dear Doctor: 

A failing memory prevents me from recalling 
where I left off in the last record of my Hfe which 
I sent to you. For the past seven or eight years, 
I have been living and travelling over here. I 
spent two years at Neuchatel where I lectured 
on philosophy, at the new university there, taking 
the place of one of the professors, who had been 
called to Geneva. A year ago, I too, came to 
Geneva, where it is possible that I may pass 
what is commonly called the evening of life. The 
Balkan war, and the present war took away a 
great many students from the Swiss universities 
which are largely attended by Russians and peo- 
ple from Southeastern Europe. Most of the for- 
eign students this year are mere women. 

There are very few Americans here now. 
Occasionally I meet in the street a man who 
comes from the famous James Edward Burr belt 
in Pennsylvania. He has, I beheve, invented a 
theory of education which will enable a child to 
read Aristotle, before leaving the cradle. 

Up to this time, the war has not disturbed me 



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much for Geneva is remote from the conflict. In 
case of a German bombardment, I have no anx- 
iety, as I am Hving at a fairly safe distance from 
the miiversity, the hospitals, the orphan asylum, 
and the cathedral. In case the French cross the 
frontier, I need not fear their heavy artillery 
which bears the auspicious name of "75." 

I hope that the members of the class will bear 
in mind, that I have an extra room in my apart- 
ment, which is kept ready for any of them who 
may pass this way, as well as for their children 
and grandchildren. Let them come before the 
provisions fail, lest they should have to eat horse, 
dog, cat, and everything that creepeth upon the 
earth. 

Faithfully yours, 

ARCHIBAI.D Alexander. 

FRANK D. ALEXANDER 

Hotel San Remo, New York 
I apologize to the Class for never having any- 
thing interesting to report about myself, 

I still take life easily; worry little; spend much 
time in the woods, fishing., etc., and still feel 
young enough to enjoy a sharp game of tennis, a 
long hike daily, and yell at a good game of ball. 
Moderation in all things, I am convinced, is a 
mighty good compass to steer by. 



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HON. CHAS. CLAFLIN ALLEN, A.M., LL.D. 
Boatmen's Bank Building, St. Louis 
Residence: 2727 Westmoreland Place 
Mydear"Tam": 

There is very little news which I can give you 
for purposes of record. I am sending you here- 
with, as you requested, a sketch of the "Origin of 
the Princeton Glee Club." 

I wish that I could feel that I had done all of 
my work in life as efficiently and happily as I did 
in the organization and direction of the Glee 
Club. 

As you, and most of the boys of '75 know, I 
have lived all my life in St. Louis, and have prac- 
ticed law since 1877, excepting for six (6) years 
between 1907 and 1913, when I was a judge of 
the Circuit Court. I was married in 1890 and 
have two children: a grown daughter named 
Grace, who spent freshman year at Wellesley, 
class of '13, and a son, who voluntarily named 
himself for me as a "Jr," who is graduating in 
the Class of '15 at Princeton. It is the hope of 
his proud mother and his sister as well as his 
father, to be present in Princeton and see him 
get his degree of A.B. in June. It would not be 
possible for me to express the keen, yet tender, 
anticipation, I feel in meeting the boys of '75 at 
our 40th anniversary. 



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With affectionate memories for the past and 
imdimmed hopes for the futm-e, 

Faithfully your classmate, 

Chas. Claflin Allen. 

"Stag" had the time of his life at the Reunion. 
He saw the "boy" graduate, and deliver the 
Latin Salutatory, and moreover, saw him take 
the unusual grade of a Complete First Group. 

WILLIAM S. ARCHER, M.D. 

Bel Air, Md., July 21, 1915. 

Dear Harvey: 

I very much regret I was not at the Class meet- 
ing. Bradford and I had fully decided to come 
up, but as usual something happened. Put me 
down for a reserved seat at the next meeting. 
You may not know it but Bel Air is on the state 
road between Baltimore and Philadelphia and if 
you or any of the Class are passing I would es- 
teem it an honor if you would stop in. I have not 
joined the prohibition party and can assure you 
a hearty welcome. I enclose you a check which 
you can use for the Record or emergency fund as 
you prefer. 

Yours sincerely, 

William S. Archer. 



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CHARLES H. BOTSFORD 

Charles H. Botsford, New York Athletic 
Club, New York. Botsford has lived in Europe 
for the last years. He has been a "Promoter of 
various large enterprizes, a vocation which he has 
followed with varying success since his college 
days," according to Botsford '74. 

In January, 1914, Botsford wrote as follows: 
"I have globe-trotted a lot since I left New York 
seven years ago, all kinds of things have happen- 
ed. Lightning has struck the '70s hard. Dr. 
Fine had a house next door to me in Munich when 
I lived there. I think I was the first to congratu- 
late him on his diplomatic appointment. I won- 
der if he is back in Princeton. I have lived in 
London since May; my boy and girl are sixteen 
and twenty years old, but I am proud of them. I 
tried some interesting experiments in education, 
so far am well pleased." 

"Bots" turned up at the reunion, favored us 
with many remarks upon most of mundane af- 
fairs, and confessed that it was an experience 
that he was sorry to have missed so regularly in 
the past. 

He read a poem at the dinner, one verse of 
which is appended: 

"Call him not old who keeps the primal joys. 



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The open door, the smile, the heart of youth. 
Loves Mother Earth and all her jewelled toys. 
Yet seeks in man a finer jewel, worth. 

S. W. BRADFORD 

S. W. Bradford, Bel Air, Maryland. "Peh- 
bles" is obdurate. His stony indifference to the 
appeals of the Secretary for grist for the Class 
Record is granitic. He is, so far as is known, in 
the banking business in Bel Air. 

ALFRED S. BROWN 

62 William St., New York City 
"Brownie" has practiced law in New York for 
many years, but not all of the time. Out in New 
Jersey there is a country-side who speak of Far- 
mer Corntassel Brown as one of the institutions 
of Somerset County. 

He is still a bachelor, but attends all Princeton 
affairs and is an active member of the Old Guard 
of '75, who keep the sacred fire burning on the 
Class altar. 

JAMES EDWARD BURR 

835 Webster Ave., Scranton, Pa. 
Burr still deals out legal advice at the old 
stand, and we are creditably informed very much 



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to the satisfaction of his dients. There comes a 
time in the hves of most professional men where 
the regular routine seems to go on without much 
variation, the only comfort being that the mon- 
otony holds good even over quarter-day. 
There are four daughters and one son. 

REV. JOHN P. CAMPBELL, D.D. 

1728 N. Broadway, Baltimore, Md. 

Pastor of the Faith Presbyterian Church 

since 1886 

Campbell promised me a letter but he did not 
send it, consequently I can only say of him that 
he has held down his present job longer than any 
of the rest of our Dominies except Louderbough : 
evidently it is simply a question of avoirdupois. 
Twenty-nine years represents a long period of 
uesfulness embracing numberless activities, and 
the ability to satisfy successive generations of 
parishioners with one's capacity as a shepherd is 
an evidence of adaptability which could only have 
been acquired by an apprenticeship in the Class 
of '75. 

Campbell has been employed in all kinds of 
churchly activities both local and national, and 
we find his name associated with administration 
in many fields of usefulness. 

He is married but there are no children. 



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REV. CRAIG BOYD CROSS 

Oxford, Pennsylvania 

Cross wrote a very pleasant little story for the 
Record about boating in the seventies, but neg- 
lected to tell us anything about himself except 
that he is still preaching. He has had three Pas- 
torates since graduation, and his letters show him 
to be the same good fellow that he was as a boy» 
He is married but has no children living. 

REV. ALLEN M. DULLES, D.D. 

Professor of Theism and Apologetics 
Theological Seminary, Auburn, N. Y. 

I have very httle to say about myself that can 
be of much interest even to my well disposed 
classmates. I am impressed with the length of 
the forty years as my imagination presented these 
to me when I was graduating; and the brevity 
of this period as I look back upon it. It seems a 
dream. How much have I forgotten, how little 
of what, at the time, seemed important, very im- 
portant, has for me now any significance what- 
ever. I seem to have done very little. Yet I 
am not inclined to that most useless of all expen- 
ditures, to waste feeling or words in regrets. My 
life has been devoted with some steadiness to re- 



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flection. I have sought for the things which 
might be called sure and worth while as a basis 
for my own living and for the help of others 
whom it has, I can hardly say, been my duty to 
help by means of preaching and teaching during 
these years. I do not know what I have accom- 
plished. The fact is, I have never regarded re- 
sults as the end and aim of doing. Somehow the 
doing has seemed to be the duty and the high 
privilege. Many convictions which I supposed 
were strong in my youth, have decayed and do 
not now enter into the solid structure of my life. 
But profounder convictions and those more nec- 
essary to hopeful living, to the conquest, the 
transformation of the evil of the world, have 
taken their place. That which ought to abide, I 
think abides as permanent in my consciousness, 
the faith and the hope and the charity which are 
the pillars of blessedness here and forever. I do 
not feel that these years have made me old, al- 
though these reflections might seem to indicate 
evening shadows. No, the world seems worth 
living in and even our own times excite to mag- 
nificent endeavor. 

Dulles. 



52 CLASS OF '75 



COL. GEORGE R. ELDER 

Quincy Block, Leadville, Colorado 
Residence: 310 West 8th St. 

Elder is just as quiet as ever. Since 1905 I 
have not succeeded in getting a word out of him 
except that he is married and has a son who grad- 
uated at Princeton, 1911, and who is evidently 
doing his paternal ancestor exceeding proud, to 
use an expressive colloquism. 

"Chippy" is still practicing law in Leadville. 

ARCH BISHOP ELDREDGE 

President, Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic R. R. 
Marquette, Mich. 
Besides being a "Senator" of old, the "Arch- 
bishop of Fond du Lac" has found time to be a 
railroad president and a grandfather. This last 
job is one that takes up a good deal of his time 
and attention. He thinks nothing of coming half 
way across the Continent to shake hands with a 
new one as he lands from the ship. Moreover, 
he has been President of the Bar Association of 
Michigan. Incidentally he comes East to all 
Princeton functions, and was so good a son of 
Nassau as to send his only boy to graduate with 
the Class of 1911. Besides the son there are two 
daughters and two wonderful grandchildren. 



PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 53 

GUSTAV ADOLF ENDLICH, A.M., LL.D. 

Reading, Pa. 
Residence: 1537 Mineral Spring Road. 

Endlich has been Judge in the twenty-third 
Judicial District since 1889, and President Judge 
since 1908. He was a candidate for Judge of the 
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, a non-partizan 
candidate; but those Pennsylvania Dutchmen 
missed the chance of their life by not nominating 
him. He has been spoken of as a "Judge whose 
learning, rich experience and great judicial in- 
dustry have borne such fruit in the illumination 
of legal principles, and in clear expositions of the 
law that the law everywhere is indebted to him." 
He has written five very important books that are 
accepted as authority of the highest character, 
particularly his "Commentaries on the Interpre- 
tation of Statutes." 

He is married and has two daughters living. 

OLIVER E. FLEMING 

Fort Wayne, Indiana 

"O." has not favored us with an account of 
his doings for a long time. We hear, however, 
that of late years, his health has not been of the 
best and that he has to spend most of his time in 
a sanitarium. 



54 CLASS OF '75 



REV. AUGUSTUS FREDERICK 

Highwood, N. J. 

Frederick turned up at the last Reunion, and 
told us of his experiences up to that time. Two 
of his sons graduated from Princeton with honors, 
and a very proud father introduced them to the 
class. He has retired from the ministry and is 
living in New Jersey. He is married and has 
three children. 



REV. CHARLES NOBLE FROST, D.D. 

Avon, New York 

"Jack Frost" was present at the "Dinner of 
the Seventies" last winter in fine shape, only 
some of us were a little puzzled that his head was 
no longer of the raven hue — but then there are 
others. Since 1879 he has been preaching con- 
stantly. In 1905 he presided at a meeting of 
the Commissioners of the Auburn Theological 
Seminary when they inaugurated "Dulles" as 
Professor. 

He is married, and there are three daughters. 



PRINCETON UNIVERSI TY 55 

REV. GEORGE WTASHINGTON GALLAGHER, 
D.D., LL.D. 

Bellevue Apartments, Madison, Wis. 

March 24, 1915. 
Dear Tarn: 

Your kind letter of March 21, with blank form 
to fill out, came yesterday. 

On September 10 I had a stroke of paralysis 
in the Presbyterian Manse in Hartington, Neb- 
raska. My daughter Katherine was in the Uni- 
versity here studying for her Doctor's Degree. 
She brought me here and placed me in a sanita- 
rium where I have been until our finances were 
exhausted, which make a longer stay at the hos- 
pital impossible. 

My daughter then took me to a little apart- 
ment where she nurses and tries to take care of 
me while she continues her teaching and studies. 
You can see that our lines have fallen in unpleas- 
ant places, and the thought of your happy 
reunion seems doubly delightful to one so unfor- 
tunate as I am. I cannot stand or sit up, or 
walk, nor can I write with pen and ink so must 
use lead pencil. I am too ill to fill out the form 
now. Last spring I received a similar one from 
Mr. McAlpin and filled it out and sent it to him. 

God bless you dear Tam and all the boys of '75. 
Your affectionate classmate, 

Geo. W. Gallagher. 



56 CLASS OF '75 



Gallagher has been living in the Middle West 
for several years practicing and lecturing in 
many places. He has been a regular lecturer on 
the Chautauqua Circuit and has written many 
books, his lectures and essays have been on many 
subjects, literary and political. 

He has been married and has three children. 



JOSEPH D. GALLAGHER 

Glenridge, N. J. 

American Brake Shoe & Foundry Company, 

30 Church St., New York City 

After practicing many years as a lawyer, 
"Time" has drifted into business, and now is Vice 
President and Counsel of the above mentioned 
corporation. So occupied has he been with these 
affairs that it is with great difficulty that he tears 
himself away for the real important things of 
life, so that he is unable to play golf more than 
four months in the year. 

Jonas explained to RoUo that the more im- 
portant work you do the less time you have to 
give to it and the more money you are paid for 
doing it. 

He is married. 



PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 57 

A. P. GARRABRANT 

2074. Daly Ave., New York City 

New York, May 12, 1915. 

Thomas W. Harvey, 

Orange, N. J., 
My Dear Harvey; 

Your notice of the reunion of our class to be 
held this coming commencement is at hand. I 
feel that the occasion will be an interesting one, 
and perhaps the last of the kind. 

During all the years I have been hindered 
from attending the gatherings of our class and 
find that, owing to my blindness I will be unable 
to attend this one. 

I have in my possession a picture of the class. 
It is the large one and is in good order. I do 
not know what disposition to make of it, as I 
have no one who will care for it when I am gone. 
If you have any suggestion to make in the matter 
I would be glad to hear from you. 

I would extend through you to the members 
of our class my best wishes. 

I remain sincerely, 

A. P. Garrabkant. 

PROF. GEORGE BRUCE HALSTED, Ph.D. 

Greeley, Colorado 
Halsted has not favored the Secretary with 
any information for a long time. His many 



58 CLASS OF '75 



mathematical books have been translated into 
many foreign languages and have been well re- 
ceived by mathematicians the world over. It 
hardly seems credible that he should have allowed 
such an opportunity as the Class Record to pass 
unutilized. 

The accompanying letter came to Bolton. 
Dear Bolton: 

I received and read with great interest your 
article on the single tax. I always think the dis- 
secting, the negative, the showing-up part of 
your writings is admirable. Therein lies your 
forte. 

But people go on doing it even after you have 
shown how untenable and absurd it is, just as 
they go on believing in hell and the devil, and the 
Kaiser, the supreme war-lord, and war babies. 

Trying to get work in Oklahoma, I was taken 
to a prayermeeting for rain. I am working as 
an electrician, as there is nothing (for me) in 
cultivating vacant lots. 

Yours always, 

George Bruce Halsted. 

BOLTON HALL 

29 Broadway, New York City 
Residence: 33 E. 61st St., New York 
Some "literary feller" has written that Bolton 
is *'a sort of philosophical anarchist with a large 



PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 59 

practical streak in him." He sums up his career 
himself in three words "importer, lawyer, agi- 
tator." 

As an agitator he has spilled many oceans of 
printers ink, and most of it is very entertaining 
and much of it instructive. 

He has written many books and delivered 
many lectures ; the motive of all his work is altru- 
ism, but some of his ways certainly are queer, 
and more or less disturbing to those of us who 
had made up our minds that we had solved all 
the problems worth worrying over, and that 
status quo was good enough for us and after us 
the deluge. It would take a volume to tell the 
whole story of Bolton. 

He is married, there are no living children. 

THOMAS W. HARVEY, M.D., F.A.C.S. 
463 Main St., Orange, N. J. 

It is curious how few things can happen to a 
man in ten years. With years has come many 
new duties, new pleasures, new sorrows and now 
and then a tragedy. 

At the end of forty years a doctor has exper- 
ienced either personally or vicariously most of 
human happenings and looks back with mingled 
sensations of joy and sorrow; satisfied however, 
that there have been many things in life that have 



60 CLASS OF '75 



been entirely worth while. High up in this list 
the Secretary puts Princeton and the Class of 
Seventy-five. 

The family record stands one good wife, one 
daughter and two sons, Princeton graduates of 
1905 and 1908. 

REV. JAMES W. HAWKES 
Hamadan, Persia 

Hawkes lives so far away as mails go that the 
answers that he sends to circulars for our Re- 
unions come back in time for the succeeding one. 
Two year ago he was at home, and several of us 
saw him. He had grown with his work and had 
many interesting tales to tell of the strenuous 
work laid out for a missionary in the midst of 
such a turbulent country of anarchy and chaos 
as Persia. Since his return the turbulence has 
greatly increased, and the present war has ex- 
tended to Hamadan. Hamadan is a trading 
post, two hundred miles southwest of Teheren, 
celebrated in tradition as the burial place of 
Esther and Mordecai and of Avicenna the great 
physician. 

Hawkes is married but has no children. 



PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 61 

REV. CHARLES HERR, S.T.D. 
244 Riverside Drive, New York City 

Dear Dr. Harvey: 

I thank you for the program of Commence- 
ment week, and I am more than sorry than I 
can really express that I cannot come. 

It may be desirable to say to you as Class news 
that I retired on the first of May from my Pasto- 
rate of twenty-nine years in Jersey City with the 
title of Pastor Emeritus and a small stipend at- 
tachment, and that I am now with some urgency 
looking for a job. 

I shall appreciate it if you will convey cordial 
greetings from me to the '75 members present. 
Very truly yours, 

Chaeles Herr. 

V^ILLIAM CRAW^FORD JOHNSON, M.D. 
Frederick, Md. 

"Smike," as every good doctor should do, 
settled early in his chosen field and stayed there. 
The result has been the reward of plenty of 
hard work, a comfortable living and a monument 
of good repute to be left in the hearts and minds 
of neighbors. He has served his fellow citizens 
in many public medical positions, and his medical 
colleagues in many honorary offices in their gift. 



62 CLASS OF '75 



Incidentally I understand that he breeds the best 
horses in Maryland, which is going some in these 
auto days. 

There are two daughters and a son. 

ISAAC H. LIONBERGER 

Security Building, St. Louis, Mo. 
Residence: 37 Westmoreland Place 

I sincerely regret that I have nothing to say 
for the Fortieth Year Class Record and had 
rather trust to your write-up in dehrium than to 
my own tortured recollections. It must have oc- 
curred to you that a man who has reached forty 
has accomplished all that he is capable of doing. 
What follows is fruition. I have been prosper- 
ous and as happy as any man ought to be. I have 
six children; none of them has given me trouble. 
For five years I have been a widower. One can- 
not make a brilliant narrative out of such meagre 
facts. I do not mean to seem rude or indifferent : 
I have nothing to say. Now and then I shrink 
from the encounter with the graybeards whom I 
knew as boys. Nevertheless, I shall venture. 
Very sincerely yours, 

I. H. LlONBERGER. 



PRINCETON UNIVER SITY 63 

REV. W. V. LOUDERBOUGH 

Presbyterian Manse 
60 Market St., Salem, N. J. 
My dear Tarn: 

Taking warning from your letter of April the 
tenth, in which you intimate that you may be 
afflicted with "delirium" (tremens?) and get off 
some "fool write up" at my expense, I now pro- 
ceed to state my case for the Fortieth Year Class 
Record. I have spent one year teaching in 
Bloomfield, N. J. High School, three years in 
Princeton Theological Seminary and thirty-six 
years in the active ministry, thirty-one of them in 
Salem, N. J., as pastor of the First Presby- 
terian Church. I have had a most happy life 
during those forty years, and fully as great suc- 
cess as I could well have expected in attaining 
unto the ends for which I have chiefly labored. 
I have had no great honor from men, but I have 
had much joy in life and the assurance that con- 
scientious service for God and men brings satis- 
fying returns even in this world. I was married 
April 17, 1884 to Miss Lida McDonough Jan- 
vier of Odessa, Del., and we have now rounded 
out thirty-one years of sweet fellowship and 
partnership together. We have one son. Rev. J. 
Janvier Louderbough of Newark, N. J., who 
was born in Salem, N. J. and in 1912 ordained 



64. CLASS OF '75 



to the Gospel Ministry here, having graduated 
from Princeton University in 1907 with the de- 
gree of A.B. and having received a degree of 
A.M. from the same institution after a post- 
graduate course there. At sixty-four years of 
age, I am happy to say that I enjoy my work 
and am doing, as I think, more and better work 
than I ever did, I am blessed with good health, 
weigh over two hundred pounds, and still feel 
young in spirits and ready to battle for God and 
the right. I love old Princeton, our honored 
Alma Mater and earnestly hope and pray, as in 
our college days, she will ever stand for high and 
holy thinking and living, and train young men 
to fear God, love his holy word and work right- 
eousness as well as to to be good scholars fitted 
for the practical work of the world. I extend 
my most cordial and affectionate greetings to all 
the surviving members of dear old '75 and hope 
to meet many of them in Princeton at our Reun- 
ion next Jime. 

W. V. LOUDEEBOUGH. 

(Little Louder). 

REV. HECTOR A. McLEAN 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

Evil days have come to Hector. His son 
writes that he has been in a sanitarium for over 



PRINCETON UN IVERSITY 65 

two years. He was so well and vigorous at our 
last Reunion that his classmates will all hear with 
sorrow that there is no expectation of his ulti- 
mate recovery. 

REV. VS^ILLIAM SIDNEY MILLER, D.D. 
440 Maple Ave., Edgewood Park, Pa. 

My dear Tam: 

I send you herewith a brief synopsis of the 
years since graduation. 

In September after our class graduated, I en- 
tered the Western Theological Seminary, gradu- 
ating in 1878. I was ordained and installed 
Pastor of the Beulah Church, just a few miles 
out of Pittsburgh. From there I went to Wash- 
ington, D. C, and was in charge of the Gurley 
Memorial Presbyterian Church. In 1893 I spent 
some weeks in Denver filling a pulpit for a sick 
minister and in February, 1894 was called to 
Crafton, a suburb of Pittsburgh, leaving there 
in 1902, then spending some months in evangel- 
istical work in Montana and North Dakota. For 
almost three years I was minister in charge of 
Churches at Kittanning, Pennsylvania, and 
Homewood Avenue and McCandless Avenue, 
Pittsburgh. I was then called to Holhdaysburg, 
Pennsylvania, County seat, Blair County, from 



66 CLASS OF '75 



which I retired in December, 1913, on account 
of a breakdown, and since that time have been 
living at Edgewood, a suburb of Pittsburgh, 
preaching as the opportunity and my health 
permit. I spent almost a year abroad in travel 
and study and again on a three months' tour. I 
received the degree of D.D. from Wooster Uni^ 
versity, Wooster, Ohio. I am now a member of 
the Board of Directors of the Western Theologi- 
cal Seminary and Secretary of that Board. 
I hope to be with you at the meeting in June. 
Very truly yours, 

William Sydney Miller. 

HENRY MOFFAT, M.D., F.A.C.S. 
129 Park Ave., Yonkers, N. Y. 

"Doc" ought to have been willing to write his 
own biography, but he only volunteered to write 
Tenny's. However, he has worked long and 
hard at his profession, is noted as a surgeon and 
fills various surgical appointments in the Hos- 
pitals in his neighborhood. He has written well 
and instructively about his work. 

Moreover, he is the peerless leader of the Old 
Guard of '75, never faltering in his duty in the 
presence of all kinds of college dinners and 
smokers, and blowing vigorously upon the spark 



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of life in the old class when it seemed about to 
be extinguished. 

He is a widower and has one son, Princeton 
1913. 

R. D. MORROW 
211 Market St., Wilmington, Del. 

"Bob" has not written this year, but he has 
come back to Princeton quite regularly, and had 
a son graduate in the class of 1909. 

He is a prosperous merchant of Wilmington. 

REV. ARTHUR NEWMAN 
Bridgehampton, N. Y. 

Newman has kept actively in the harness as a 
clergyman since his ordination, being many 
years in his present parish where he has been do- 
ing much good work, greatly beloved by all his 
people. He has also kept closely in touch with 
class interests as the Secretary's letter file wit- 
nesses, and has been of much assistance in many 
matters. 

He is President of the Long Island Bible So- 
ciety, and his little book "Writing on the Clouds" 
was an inspiration. 

He is married and has three children, two 
daughters and a son. 



68 CLASS OF '75 



JAMES S. NICKERSON 
Ivy Court, 210 W. 107th St., New York 

"Nick" broke the silence of many years and 
came to the Reunion, and enjoyed himself so 
much that he wrote the following letter when he 
went back. He has wandered far afield from the 
quiet Quaker-town, and has spent many years 
abroad. 
Dear Tam: 

I am afraid I may not get down to Princeton 
tomorrow as I expected. If I don't, say good- 
bye to the boys with the hope that we will all be 
at our next meeting. Tell them my address, and 
if they should forget it, to look for "Ivy Court" 
in the Telephone book. We should be awfully 
glad to see them whenever they come to New 
York. I wish more of the boys had brought their 
wives. Mrs. Nickerson had a glorious time and 
wants to see you all again. 

Yours for '75, 

Jas. S. Nickerson. 

FRANK HUSTON NORTON 

Lexington, Ky. 

Norton is married and has one child, a daugh- 
ter. He retired from business in 1914. 
My dear Harvey: 

Your letter dated nearly two months ago, ask- 



PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 69 



ing for personal information, and reminding me 
to make arrangement to attend the Fortieth Re- 
imion next Jmie, has been received. 

I was glad to learn that at least one other 
member of the old class of '75 was alive, and as 
he suggests, neither of us will have the chance as 
now to meet at another fortieth reunion. 

I hope however, that the doctor and the drug- 
gist will be the last to go. I am past sixty years 
old, shghtly bald, hair and whiskers grey and in 
good health. I regret that being in unfortunate 
circumstances I will be prevented from attending 
the Reunion. 

Sending my best wishes to all the surviving 
members, I remain. 

Yours truly, 

Frank H. Norton. 

HON. JAMES PENNEWILL 
Dover, Delaware 
Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Delaware 
"Pus" gives me permission to say "that after 
leaving College he read law for three years, was 
admitted to the Bar of the State of Delaware in 
1878. He practiced for nineteen years and was 
appointed Associate Judge of the Supreme 
Court, Delaware in 1897. In 1909 he Was pro- 
moted to the position of Chief Justice of said 



70 CLASS OF "75 



Court which position he is still endeavoring to 
hold down." He also came mighty near going 
to the Senate of the United States from the same 
little State. 
He is married. 



REV. JOHN S. PLUMER, D.D. 
649 E. 24th St., Baltimore, Md. 

My dear Harvey: 

I do not expect to be at our Fortieth Reun- 
ion. I have nothing worth while to write con- 
cerning myself for the occasion. The "hypnotic 
spell" you accused me of having exercised over 
my former charge was at last broken, and after 
an interim in Western Pennsylvania I turned 
up in Baltimore. Had you asked for a program 
and prospectus forty years ago I might have 
furnished you a volume, and although most of 
it would have been fiction it would have made 
copy. But now with myself and my deeds as a 
subject I feel I have nothing to write, and so will 
fit my treatment to my theme and close, with best 
wishes for your prosperity and a good time at 
the reunion. 



PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 71 



J. EVERTON RAMSEY 
500 N. Chester Road, Swarthmore, Penn. 

My dear Harvey: 

Yours received some little time since. It is 
certainly good of you to keep up your old time 
vigor in the pursuit of statistics of '75. 

I have little to report that would interest my 
classmates. Have tried to keep busy and am 
now fully occupied with one thing and another. 
Am President of a good sized Trust Company, 
and active Vice-President of one National Bank 
and Director of another Bank. 

Have tried to keep three things prominent in 
my interest, my family. Church and business. 
Political honor has not sought me nor I it, 
neither have I cared for club life. Am a Re- 
publican, and not particularly rejoicing under 
the present Administration, but still wiUing to 
confess some admiration for the present Presi- 
dent who is too good a Princeton man to get 
very far astray. 

Have been blessed with a wife "good beyond 
compare" and three daughters, one of whom has 
just been married, and the other two just coming 
into womanhood. I live in a College town twelve 
miles from Philadelphia, and enjoy association 
with a splendid company, many of them profes- 
sional and literary people. 



72 CLASS OF '75 



I love, sympathize and enjoy the young life 
about me. Have tried not to let the years dim 
the forward look the sunny hope, and faith in the 
ideals yet to be realized. I see some members 
of '75 occasionally, but not as many as I would 
like to. 

With kind regards. 

Yours sincerely, 

J. E. Ramsey. 

SAMUEL CULBERSTON REA 
Luverne, Minn. 

My dear Tam : 

Your various little reminders and notices of 
the Class reunion have all reached me and it is 
with the deepest regret I am compelled to say I 
cannot be with you. 

Circumstances are such that a trip east at this 
time is utterly out of the question, however great 
the inducement. The programme you lay out is 
a most tempting one and it is a great self-denial 
to resist. 

I will think of you all on Friday evening at 
the reunion and on Saturday at Charlie Wil- 
liams,' I will be with you in spirit and trust the 
boys will give me a passing thought. Remember 
me to all the class present and tell them that as 



PRINCETON UNIVER SITY 73 

time passes the ties of 1875 grow stronger and 
firmer. 

If everything goes well I will certainly be with 
you when we celebrate in 1920. 

With best wishes and my warmest regards to 
all, it is with much regret I am compelled to 
sign, 

The absent "Screech" Rea. 

PATTERSON A. REECE 

Reece & Reece 
Fifth and Walnut Sts., Johnston Bldg., Cincin- 
nati 

Reece still holds forth as a lawyer having as- 
sociated with him a son so that the firm stands 
"Reece & Reece," his best hold however is as a 
poet. He came down to the New York dinner 
one winter with a poem and spoke it. He made 
a "tare." Do you remember how "Tete" Shel- 
don used to parse it "taro, rowlere, fizzili, flunk- 
um,"? I have some other examples of his muse 
on file. 

"Pap" is a great Sunday School sharp, and 
came on East some time ago sampling our New 
York variety, but they were not to his taste. 

He is married and there are two sons and a 
daughter. 



74 CLASS OF '75 



"It gives me much pleasure to say that every- 
thing is reasonably prosperous with me and that 
my health is good and that I have reason to be- 
lieve that the Kind Landlord will extend my 
lease on life so that I may hope to be with you 
all at another meeting. 

"Give my love to all the boys and ask them to 
sing one or the other of the two little songs which 
I enclose. 

"You all have my blessing and the earnest 
hope that we may all meet together on our 50th 
Anniversary." 

Fraternally yours, 

P. A. Reece. 

ROBERT C. RODGERS 
Attorney at Law 
Springfield, Ohio 
Dear Tam : 

Since receiving your letter I have been occu- 
pied with so many things that I had almost for- 
gotten it. You ask me to blow my own horn in 
regard to the happenings of the past forty years, 
and I find myself up against a very difficult situ- 
ation, for with me it has been about the same old 
thing year after year, and the present finds me 
doing just what I have done during all this 
period. Nothing very exciting has occurred to 



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which I can call special attention. All I can 
say is : 

The years have come, 

The years have past. 

But I do just the same 

This year as I did the last. 

Very sincerely yours, 

ROBT. C. RODGERS. 
CHARLES SCRIBNER 
597 Fifth Ave., New York City 

No one has kept up his interest in the Class or 
in Princeton more actively than has "Scrib" but 
he has neglected to supply more than the barest 
recital of details for his biography. From this 
we learn that he is President of "Charles Scrib- 
ner Sons, Publishers," and that he serves as Di- 
rector on the Boards of several banks. We glory 
in the honor of his trusteeship of Princeton Uni- 
versity, and are proud of the University Press 
Building which Princeton owes to him. 

Other fields of activity have occupied his at- 
tention however, such as the Morristown School 
of which he was President for ten years; the 
American Publishers Association of which he 
has been President, and his name is seen in the 
public prints associated with many of the philan- 
thropies of New York. 



76 CLASS OF '75 



He is married and has one daughter, a son, 
Princeton '13 and a granddaughter. 

FREDERICK A. SNOW 
15 Wall St., New York City 
"No skit that I could send you, in the form 
of personal history since my graduation, would 
be at all amusing. I can send you a bare state- 
ment of facts if you care for that kind of infor- 
mation." 

Fred, is a lawyer, is married and has one son. 

JOHN C. TEN EYCK 

76 WiUiam St., New York City 
Residence: 19 Belmont Terrace, Yonkers 

My dear Tam: 

I am in receipt of your letter of the 17th, in 
which you twit me for abandoning the idea of 
"purple pajamas" and "mortar boards" on Class 
Day. You say, "I should be more steadfast in 
my convictions," but you should remember that 
during all of our lives, you and I have left the 
clouds where we live to associate with our friends 
on the low earth. This is no lack of steadfast- 
ness to conviction on our part, for love is the ful- 
fillment of all conviction and we must be stead- 
fast to the claims of affection. 



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I, however, propose this, that you and I, if 
no one else, shall put on purple togas, and stand- 
ing together, shall look up into the light, this 
ceremony to take place on the evening of our 
Class dinner. 

Yours faithfully, 

John C. Ten Eyck. 

This letter is characteristic but not biographi- 
cal. "Cupid" is a lawyer, but more than that he 
has been a politician and is therefore chary of 
such details; he is moreover, a philosopher and 
has written on many public questions in a way 
that makes us regret that he has not ventured 
upon higher flights in the way of public service. 

Halsted once said that a man could not be 
both a mathematician and lover at one and the 
same time. So with politics and philosophy, they 
are mutually exclusive, and then comes golf, of 
which ancient game "Tenny" is a devotee to the 
nth power. This is another combination of ad- 
verse conditions that prevented '75 from having 
a U.S. Senator. 

He is married and has two sons and a daugh- 
ter, one son is a student in Princeton now. 

"Tenny" left the reunion early and on arriv- 
ing home wrote this letter which reflects very 
happily the state of exaltation that was produced 
in the minds of all who attended the fortieth : 



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June 14, 1915. 
My dear Tarn: 

My wife says that as time goes on she will 
probably get fuller information, but that as far 
as she knows the only things that I have left are 
my new pajamas and my old black pants. If not 
too much trouble, please send me these things, — 
together with any stray suggestions from El- 
dredge, — by parcels post, to 19 Belmont Terrace, 
Yonkers. 

Although I am writing mainly to snatch my 
things from the void, I might as well make a few 
remarks. Eldredge is a Chestnut. This is not 
a joke. He is prickly without but sweet within. 
Zach is a fiery icicle, — a loving denunciation, — 
a highly explosive compound of the practical and 
ideal. I mourn to know that I must wait until 
worms destroy my body before again reaching 
out my arms to him, for that which is mortal in 
me protests against these forty years during 
which none of us have met together and spoken 
of the old times, without testifying to our love 
for him who knew us not. 

Botsford is our best illustration of the unalter- 
ableness of individuality. He may have per- 
suaded himself that he is a mixer, but we all 
know that if we had to go over our four years, 
starting next September, the charm of the Col- 



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lege Library would soon wean him from our 
breasts. I think I love Miller more than I ever 
did. He looked at us all gently and held his 
peace, and then he prayed. For myself I like 
the way he prayed and it comforted me to think 
that if by some chance he could see my soul he 
would not laugh. Indeed, our ministers were all 
to the good. It may be Dulles thinks too much 
and may be not. Who knows? Perhaps some 
day he may capture a positivist, by his own 
weapons, and lay him bound hand and foot be- 
fore the throne of grace. The rest are bully! 
Bear with me while I repeat the old names: 
Dock, and Tam, and Charlie, and Bob, and Bob, 
and Nick, — to whom God has sent a wife for 
his salvation. I think of you all and of all who 
were with us, and all who wished to be with us 
but could not come. 

Yours ever, 

Jno. C. Ten Eyck. 



FREDERICK B. VAN VORST 

25 Broad St., New York 
Residence: Hackensack, N. J. 

My dear Tam: 

I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your let- 
ter of October 16, 1914, sounding the bugle call 



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for the reunion next year. Let me see, that is 
the Fortieth Anniversary; — I do not recall suf- 
ficient of my Latin to apply to it the proper 
term. In due course I will be pleased to transmit 
such material for the Class Record touching my 
own life as may seem to me to interest others. 
As a matter of fact, however, my own life since 
the publication of the last Record has been hard 
work for seventeen years, and sickness, more or 
less serious, for three years. 

The sands in the upper compartment of the 
hour-glass of '75 are running low, I will admit, 
and I hope, — sincerely hope — on this anniver- 
sary to be with you all once more. — He was. 

CHARLES RICHARD WILLIAMS, Ph.D., L.H.D. 

210 Mercer St., Princeton, N. J. 

The pace that "C" set up when he left Prince- 
ton as first honorman he has kept up all his life. 
Sailing his ship over the sea of literature he has 
weathered all the storms and has returned to the 
port of his departure with an abundant cargo of 
honors. He has taught, managed and edited. 
He was a tutor at Princeton and a Professor at 
Lake Forest. He has been an editor of the New 
York World, general manager of the Associated 
Press and Editor of the Indianapolis News for 



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nine years. He has now retired and devoted 
himself to belles-lettres. His most recent work 
being "The Life of ex-President Hayes. 
He is married. 



DUDLEY GOODALL WOOTEN, LL.D. 
Pioneer Bldg., Seattle, Wash. 

Wooten practiced law in Texas until 1903 
when he removed to Seattle, Washington, and 
has lived a most active life both professional and 
political. He was Prosecuting Attorney in Aus- 
tin, Texas, and District Judge at Dallas. He 
served in the Texas Legislature and represented 
his State in Congress from 1899 to 1903. He 
has been a Special Judge in the Supreme Courts 
of both Texas and Washington. He was a 
Presidential Elector at large for Texas in 1892. 
He has also represented his State in many Na- 
tional Conventions and Congresses, and has been 
active in and the Presiding Officer of many so- 
cieties both civic and legal. He is the author of 
"A comprehensive history of Texas"; "A com- 
plete history of Texas for Schools and Colleges" ; 
"The Texas Land System"; "The old Missions 
of Texas, Mexico and California." He is mar- 
ried and has one child. 

Certainly Wooten's career illustrates what op- 



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portimities this great country offers to a strong 
man who has been thoroughly trained. Trusted 
by his fellow citizens we see him occupying im- 
portant positions of trust, and chosen to repre- 
sent his constituents in many important and 
varied fields. 

MARTIN DASHER WYLLY 

30 Pine St., New York City 

Residence: 81 Hillyer St., East Orange, N. J. 
No one of the class has taken more interest in 
arranging the preliminaries of the Fortieth An- 
niversary than Dasher, but alas ! during this past 
winter he was incapacitated by illness and has 
been unable to take part in our reunion much to 
the disappointment of all his fellow classmates. 
Up to this event the years passed lightly over 
the old fellow, just adding that touch of mellow- 
ness that made his hand-shake just the one thing 
that his friends wished for. And with it all 
every one said that he was the youngest man of 
the crowd. ^ . » ^ ^ * a% i 



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No responses have been received from the 
following: 

REV. M. L. BOCHER 
515 Fountain St., Grand Rapids, Mich. 

GEO. C. HENDRICKSON 
Huntington, N. Y. 

E. T. KENNARD 
525 E. 23rd St., Baltimore, Md. 

GEO. M. LANNING 
Afton, N. J. 

REV. JOHN McELMOYLE 
Elkton, Md. 

REV. C. R. SHIELDS 
3451 Arroyo Secor Ave., Los Angeles, Cal. 

W. H. UNDERWOOD 
Union League Club, New York City 

No Address 

R. H. EVANS 

S. M. MILLER, M.D. 



NECROLOGY 

WILLIAM H. BLINN Feb. 6, 1877 
ROBERT L. STEVENSON 

CHARLES M. FLEMING 1883 

FRANCIS BIDDLE 1886 

ELSWORTH E. HUNT, M. D. Aug. 1886 

WILLIAM H. REILLEY Jan. 17, 1888 

WILLIAM H. GRUNDY, M. D. 1888 

JOSEPH WARREN Dec. 19, 1889 

CHARLES B. MURRAY, M. D. 1890 

REV. O. P. STEWART Nov. 13, 1894 

REV. JOHN P. COYLE, D. D. Feb. 2, 1895 

W. POLK CUMMINS Mar. 17, 1895 

R. J. HALL, M. D. Jan. 25, 1897 

CHARLES M. CASS Aug. 11, 1897 

FRANK M. DICKEY Apr. 20, 1899 

D. G. WALKER July 19- 1900 
S. B. HUTCHINSON Jan. 20, 1902 

E. W. GREENOUGH Apr. 5, 1905 
THEODORE SHELDON May 25, 1905 
PETER McGOUGH, M. D. Jan. 24, 1906 
LADISLAS KARGE 

REV. W. K. EDDY Nov. 9, 1906 

ASHTON LEMOINE Feb. 12. 1907 

WILLARD HALL PORTER Apr. 25, 1907 

H. W. ARCHER, JR. Jan- 15. 1910 

W. S. CHEESMAN, M. D. May 7, 1912 

JUDGE CALVIN RAYBURN May 16, 1912 

HERMAN G. DENNINSON July 31, 1912 

FRANK C. ROGERS Feb. 23, 1914 

E. S. EICHELBERGER July 29, 1914 

F. W. JACKSON Nov. 21, 1914 
THOMAS BIDDLE, M. D. Feb. 19, 1915 
WILLIAM H. WILLIAMS May 28, 1915 



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THE ADVANCE GUARD 

Inevitably as the years glide by more and 
more good fellows slip quietly out of the march- 
ing and join those who have passed on. Since 
our Record was printed we have lost from the 
roll the following names. 

Rev. W. K. Eddy Nov. 9, 1906 

Ashton Lemoine Feb. 12, 1907 

Willard Hall Porter Apr. 25, 1907 

H. W. Archer, Jr Jan. 15, 1910 

W. S. Cheesman, M.D May 7, 1912 

Judge Calvin Rayburn May 16, 1912 

Herman G. Dennison July 31, 1912 

Frank C. Rogers Feb. 28, 1914 

E. S. Eichelberger July 29, 1914 

F. W. Jackson Nov. 21, 1914 

Thomas Riddle, M.D Feb. 19, 1915 

William H. Williams May 28, 1915 

Karge disappeared during this period, and 
we have not been able to hear any news of him. 
He was living an invalid in San Francisco pre- 
vious to the earthquake, but disappeared at that 
time, and the people who cared for him then 
know nothing about him. 



88 CLASS OF '75 



REV. W. K. EDDY 

We all remember our missionary to Syria 
"Billy" Eddy. After graduating from the Sem- 
inary he went immediately back to Sidon where 
he had been born. He was very active in his 
chosen field; speaking Arabic fluently he soon 
became a most influential man in Syria. He 
died suddenly while on a hunting trip November 
9, 1906. A memorial pamphlet was mailed to 
the members of the class at that time. 

ASTON LEMOINE 

Ashton Lemoine died suddenly Feb. 12, 1907. 
Ash. had lived in New York ever since gradua- 
tion. He was a yacht broker and never married. 
He was a faithful attendant at our class meet- 
ings and was sure to be present at most Prince- 
ton gatherings. 

WILLARD HALL PORTER 

Willard Hall Porter died April 25, 1907. 
None of us will leave the class leaving pleas- 
anter memories behind us than did Porter. He 
practiced law in Wilmington, Delaware, hving 
the same honest life that one would have pre- 
dicted knowing him at Princeton. He was mar- 
ried and left a widow and two children. His 
son graduated from Princeton. 



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HENRY W. ARCHER, Jr. 

Henry W. Archer, Jr., died at Bel Air, Md., 
June 15, 1910, just after our last reunion. "Big 
Sage" studied law after leaving Princeton, and 
practiced in Bel Air, his native town, until his 
death, much respected by all his fellow citizens. 
He served one term in the House of Delegates, 
but took little interest in politics. He was mar- 
ried but left no children. 

DR. WILLIAM S. CHEESMAN 

Dr. William S. Cheesman died at his home in 
Auburn, N. Y., May 7, 1912, at the age of fifty- 
nine years. Dr. Cheesman was a prominent 
physician of Central New York. He was a 
graduate of the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute 
and of the College of Physicians and Surgeons 
of Columbia University, and he studied abroad 
at Berlin and Vienna. Dr. Cheesman was a son- 
in-law of the late Dr. Theodore L. Cuyler '41. 

As a college boy, as a scholar, as an athlete, 
as a medical student, as a practitioner of medi- 
cine and as a citizen he fulfilled the highest ideals 
of what a man should be. 

We recall the pleasant companionship of the 
four years at Princeton, the interest that he took 
in the class and campus life, his enthusiasm for 



90 CLASS OF '75 



the gymnasium, and the thoroughness that char- 
acterized his classroom work. 

We recall also his genial friendship at the 
class reunions, which he attended as often as the 
exacting duties of his profession permitted, and 
the cheerful, inspiring letters that he wrote when 
not able to be present." 

"Billy" was always interested in class matters 
and the last letter that he ever wrote was to the 
secretary in reference to a call for the New York 
dinner. 

He attained many honors in his professional 
work and his contributions to medical literature 
were scientific and worthy. As a citizen in his 
home town he took an active part in all altruistic 
work, often the pioneer, and ever the staunch 
supporter of every movement that had for its 
object the welfare of his fellowman but he was 
equally as stalwart a foe to hypocrisy and 
quackery either in medicine or religion. 

CHEESMAN'S LAST LETTER 

February 1912 
Dear Tam: 

I wish I could go to the dinner but I am 
knocked out by a multiple neuritis which has me 
tied to a bed. I write with difficulty. So I am 
down and out not as those that are without hope. 



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but the light of hope is dull and weak. They all 
try to jolly me so you needn't. 

Tell the boys I'd love to see them. I'll think 
of them the night of the dinner. '75 ought to 
pass a vote of pride and thanks to Scribner who 
has proved such a splendid alumnus and done 
so much for our class and Princeton. 

I go over and over the old days and have much 
joy of them in memory. 

My love to the boys and tell them I am sorry 
not to be with them. W. S. C. 

CALVIN RAYBURN 

Calvin Rayburn died May 16, 1912. Dear 
old "Johnnie" Rayburn died a judge so highly 
respected and loved in his community that they 
called him "The People's Friend." To us who 
knew him as a boy it is easy to understand why 
he should have developed into just such a man. 
Just the kind of a Democrat to overcome a Re- 
publican majority of fifteen hundred, just the 
kind of a man to be loved by little children and 
respected by his equals. 

Said his Pastor at his funeral : 

"If every person for whom the judge has done 
a kindness would place but a single blossom on 
his bier he would sleep under a bower of roses 
tonight." 



92 CLASS OF '75 



The judge left three children, two sons and a 
daughter. 

OBITUARY IN THE ALUMNI WEEKLY 
Judge Calvin Rayburfn died, at 62, at his 
home Kittanning, Pa., on May 16, 1912. Judge 
Rayburn was bom in North Buffalo Township, 
Pa., of Scottish descent. For ten years he served 
as judge in the Armstrong County Court, and 
was also a very active member of the Democratic 
Party, serving as delegate to several National 
Conventions. 

As a man Judge Rayburn fulfilled the promise 
of his boyhood, honest and faithful, a hard 
worker, the same sunny disposition that made 
him the warm friend of every classmate charac- 
terized his work as a barrister and as a jurist, 
and when he was laid to rest, after a long and 
active life, his neighbors called him the People's 
Friend. 

HERMAN G. DENNISON 

Herman G. Dennison died July 31, 1912. It 
has been impossible to get any details of Den- 
nison's life. 

DR. F. W. ROGERS 

Dr. F. W. Rogers died February 23, 1914. 
we will remember Frank Rogers as one of our 



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Freshman Honormen. He left college in Sopho- 
more year, studied dentistry and settled in his 
native town, Huntington, Long Island. He left 
a widow and two children. 

EDWARD S. EICHELBERGER 

Edward S. Eichelberger died July 29, 1914. 
A constant attendant at all the Class Reunions, 
we will all miss Eichelberger very much. He 
died in the same house where he was born, Fred- 
eric, Maryland. 

He studied law after graduation and was ad- 
mitted to the Maryland Bar in 1878. He rose 
to distinction in his profession, having served two 
terms as State Attorney, and at the time of his 
death he was Referee in Bankruptcy. He was 
an active citizen of his native town serving in 
many business activities. He was an Elder in 
the Presbyterian Church and for twenty-five 
years Superintendent of the Sunday School. He 
leaves a widow and two children, a son and 
daughter. 

We will always cherish his memory as that of 
a happy fun-loving boy, and who carried through 
life the same joyous spirit that animated his 
youth. 



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F. W. JACKSON 

F. W. Jackson died November 21, 1914, at 
Montgomery, Alabama. His degree was grant- 
ed him in 1905. I have been unable to obtain 
any details of his life. 

DR. THOMAS BIDDLE 

Dr. Thomas Biddle died in Philadelphia, Feb- 
ruary, 1915. After leaving Princeton he studied 
medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and 
practiced in Philadelphia all his life. 

Those of us who have seen him occasionally can 
testify to his being the same Tom Biddle that 
graced our Freshman year. 

WILLIAM H. WILLIAMS 

William H. Wilhams died at his home. Pater- 
son, IST. J., May 28, 1915. He was a lawyer and 
had always practiced his profession in Paterson. 
He was on the directorate of several institutions 
in Paterson. 

June 9, 1915. 
My dear Dr. Harvey : 

Mr. Robert Wilhams has just given me your 
letter in which you express sorrow at the news of 
my dear husband's death. 

It is still all very unreal to me, although I 



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am thankful to have been able to minister to him 
for eight weeks. They are precious to me, and 
at one period of his illness he asked for your let- 
ter to be read to him, the one with reference to 
the coming Class reunion, and insisted that the 
Princeton flag which always hvmg in his "den" 
should be placed where he could see it. He had 
expected to have attended the reunion this year. 

Last simimer he was not very well so we start- 
ed for Europe in July, expecting to go directly 
to Carlsbad, but reached Cologne the day before 
war was declared, and were obliged to remain 
there until able to get a freight steamer down the 
Rhine to Rotterdam. There Dr. VanDyke 
strongly urged us to go to England as it was 
impossible to secure any sailings from there. 

After much difficulty we were able to return 
comfortably in the autumn, but all this stress, 
particularly in Germany, seemed later to tell 
seriously upon my husband's health and on April 
1 he suffered from a stroke of apoplexy from 
which, as I have said, he never recovered, al- 
though lying as he did eight weeks we had hopes 
that he might. Dr. Allen Starr was called in 
consultation early in his illness and seemed at 
that time hopeful that he might. A telephone 
message was sent to you the day after his death 
but we could not get the message taken at your 
residence. 



96 CLASS OF '75 



I am sending you these particulars because I 
know you are interested, and because in all the 
world there never was such a tender, loving, 
chivalrous husband as your old Classmate 
"Billy." 

Sincerely yours, 

Helen B. Williams. 



THE FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY 

Headquarters at 39 University Place were^ 
opened at 11.30 a. m., present Moffatt, Eldredge, 
W. S. Miller, C. Williams and Harvey. ^ By six 
o'clock seventeen had arrived, Ten Eyck, Allen/ 
Lionberger,'' F. Alexander," RodgerSj'Scribner,"' 
Louderbough, Nickerson,"'Botsford,'*Burrr J. D/ 
Gallagher and Dulles. 

Meeting was called to order at six o'clock with 
the President in the chair. The minutes of the 
meeting of 1910 were read and approved. The 
Secretary's report was read, giving him the pres- 
ent number of men on the roll as fifty-seven and 
the men who had responded to this call as forty- 
five. The necrology of the five year period was 
read, the list being Cheeseman, Rayburn, Eichel- 
berger and W. H. Williams of the active list, 
Jackson, Tom Biddle, F. Rogers and Dennison 
of the inactive list. The sickness of Geo. W. 
Gallagher, Garrabrant and Wylly was noted. 
A letter from Mrs. W. H. WilHams was read 
telling of the death of her husband, who had died 
on May 28, and a committee consisting of Ten 
Eyck, Scribner and Harvey were appointed to 
draft a memorial minute to be printed in the 
Alumni Weekly and sent to Mrs. Williams. 



98 CLASS OF '75 



The Treasurer reported that the subscriptions 
to date amounted to $445.00 and interest $3.52, 
making a total of $448.52. The expenses of the 
Reunion to date amounted to $408.00. He re- 
ported that more money would be needed, that 
there were other expenses connected with the Re- 
union, and also that one hundred and fifty dollars 
would print the Record. 

A motion was passed that the Secretary should 
print the Record as soon as he should have suf- 
ficient funds in the treasury. The Secretary re- 
ported that the balance of the Karge fund, 
consisting of $140.00 had been sent to one of 
the members of the Class by the Executive Com- 
mittee. It was moved and carried that this action 
of the Executive Committee be confirmed. 

The Secretary reported that George Washing- 
ton Gallagher had had a paralytic stroke that had 
compelled him to give up work and that he was 
living with his daughter. Further that Hector 
McLean had become insane and has been in a 
sanitarium for the past two years. A resolution 
was made and adopted that an emergency fund 
be created consisting of voluntary contributions 
from the members of the Class, to be held by the 
Treasurer to be used by the officers of the Class 
for the benefit of any member of the Class at 
their discretion. 



PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 99 

On motion of Scribner, seconded by Eldredge, 
Ten Eyck was requested to cast a vote for the 
election of the present officers for the succeeding 
term of ten years. Ten Eyck reported the vote 
as so cast. Meeting adjourned. 

The Anniversary dinner was served at seven 
o'clock. The principal decoration of the table 
was a basket of roses from Mrs. John Grier Hib- 
ben. The Secretary was requested to make the 
proper acknowledgments. Toward the end of 
the dinner President Hibben made a short call 
and spoke to the Class, congratulating them on 
the number present, and also upon the hearty ap- 
pearance of the old boys. But he particularly 
congratulated Stag Allen upon the phenomenal 
achievements of his son, Charles C. Allen, Jr., 
who had graduated a Complete First, that is first 
group in every department. This was a grade 
very rarely if ever attained. Young Allen was 
the Latin Salutatorian. This was a complete 
surprise to the boys and to Allen himself, and 
was received with great applause. The evening 
was spent in talks and songs. The President told 
about the doings of the baseball and football 
teams. Allen told of the beginning of the Glee 
Club, and C. Williams spoke beautifully of the 
"Noctes ambrosianae" the library meetings of 
Dr. McCosh. Zach and Dulles were a little dis- 



100 CLASS OF '75 



posed to turn on the blue light, but there was so 
much red fire burned all along the line by the 
rest of the bunch that their gloom was soon 
dissipated. 

On Saturday, Van Vorst, Brown, Ramsey and 
Morrow appeared, and the Class after being pho- 
tographed at the headquarters paraded with full 
ranks, total 20, to the Yale Game. The youth- 
ful appearance of the old veterans in dark coats, 
white pants and straw hats with the new band 
was a continual cause for satisfaction. 

After the game the members of the Class with 
their wives and families were given a reception 
by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Williams at their resi- 
dence, 210 Mercer St., Princeton. President 
Hibben and many residents were invited to meet 
them. "C." has a beautiful home with broad 
lawns and an extensive view, and the members 
of the Class remained to supper with their hosts. 
The late evening passed in the usual rapid fire 
work that characterizes the conversation of the 
boys upon such occasions "all through the night." 

On Sunday evening at six o'clock a memorial 
service was held at headquarters in charge of 
Louderbough. The list of the departed was read 
and short obituaries given of the men who had 
died since 1910. Dulles, Miller, Louderbough 
and Botsford spoke in memory of Cheeseman 



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and Rayburn. Dulles and W. Miller lead in 
prayer. A note of greeting was sent to Archie 
Alexander after an eloquent apostrophe by 
Allen. 

Sunday evening the men began to drift away, 
and by Tuesday morning there were but six to 
represent the Class at the Alumni luncheon, after 
which the Reunion was adjourned until 1920. 

The Reunion was a great success, Nickerson 
came back for the first time in thirty years, and 
Botsford for the first time in forty years. Vari- 
ous members of the VanVorst, Nickerson, Allen, 
Rodgers, Moffat, Ten Eyck and Harvey families 
were present at the headquarters, and were very 
welcome contributors to the good times. 



CLASS OF '75 LIBRARY OF ENGLISH 
POETRY AND DRAMA 

The Library of Princeton University, 
Princeton, N. J., 

June 9, 1914. 
Mr. Thomas W. Harvey, M.D., 

463 Main St., Orange, N. J. 
Dear Mr. Harvey: 

We are sending you under separate enclosure 
a hst of the books purchased for the Class of '75 
Library of EngUsh Poetry and Drama, and I 
take the occasion to say that this collection has 
proved of the utmost value in the very serious 
problem of providing necessary books for the rap- 
idly increasing work of the University. The 
problem of satisfying the insistent and reasonable 
demands of the professors, is one which is baffling 
and almost overwhelming to the library authori- 
ties, but your collection and the few similar ones 
have been, so to speak, real Hfe-rafts, keeping 
heads above water until help arrives. Your col- 
lection has been of the utmost concrete usefuhiess 
in the direct problem of university instruction. 

With the assurance of our appreciation, I am, 
Yours very faithfully, 

E. C. RiCHAEDSON, 

Librarian. 



